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The self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future Part II shall soon be a reality.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81830

Whoa, this is heavy.

HoboNinja said:

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Pretty much this.

http://gizmodo.com/shoes/

Crushing the far-fetched dream of wearing 2015 technology on your feet though, the shoes won't be power lacing.

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However:

Here's the great news about the Back to the Future Nikes: they're being made for a great cause as the proceeds will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation in the hopes of finding a cure for Parkinson's disease.

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Where to buy? Well that's the hard part:

...only 1500 pairs will be made. Even harder is that each pair will be put up for auction on eBay. The auction starts tonight at 11:30 EST at nikemag.eBay.com.

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dang. good cause. I want one, too poor

Dude fuck Nike so much... I can forgive the no power latching but the fact that they are virtually unattainable to me because I am a poor college kid that can't drop 2 grand+ on an eBay auction for some shoes pisses me off.

no power lacing

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Brb, burying my hopes and dreams.

The first auction went for like35k

HoboNinja said:

Dude fuck Nike so much... I can forgive the no power latching but the fact that they are virtually unattainable to me because I am a poor college kid that can't drop 2 grand+ on an eBay auction for some shoes pisses me off.

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Here's the great news about the Back to the Future Nikes: they're being made for a great cause as the proceeds will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation in the hopes of finding a cure for Parkinson's disease.

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CrimsonSoul said:

The first auction went for like35k

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The cause is great. The shoes I would love to have, but I don't have 35k
much less 1k!

Now that Nike knows they can make this much money selling shoes...

Inner City Kids will have to start robbing banks to get their new kicks.

HoboNinja said:

Dude fuck Nike so much... I can forgive the no power latching but the fact that they are virtually unattainable to me because I am a poor college kid that can't drop 2 grand+ on an eBay auction for some shoes pisses me off.

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This is YOU:

Denbrought said:

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IM MERICAN BRAH I DONT GIVE NO SHITS BOUT NO OTHER PEOPLES I JUST WANT MY COOL SHOES.

No but seriously, they could have produced more, and put them for their already normally overpriced price of $200 a pair for fucking shoes, and then auctioned off like 1500 signed pairs and made a fuck ton more money for research and made a lot more people happy.

But if people could buy them in stores there wouldn't have been any reason for people to bid on them, thus defeating the purpose of their fundraiser.

Yeah, I think even if they put autographed ones on auction, they would not have gone for as high as just putting the whole limited run on there. Its pretty difficult to be mad at them for this.